I considered it an outrage that France,
alleged bastion of State Secularity,
sustains a Public Holiday
of the Christian Feast of the Assumption
of the Virgin Mary...
UNTIL, on further investigation I found that
a Roman Imperial festival, now called
Ferragosto in Italy, which celebrated
the assumption of Roman Emperor by Augustus
on the first of August, was moved to the fifteenth
by the Vatican for politico-religious reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferragosto
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